Hey guys,
so I have a MacBook pro 13 and 2tb of iCloud storage. Before I got the iCloud storage my photos library became way to big for the hard drive (500+gb) so I decided to move it to an external storage device. My naive thought: I activate iCloud, allow photos to optimize my storage, the library shrinks in size until I can move it back to my MacBook. But that didn't work.
Instead more and more pictures that were uploaded from my iPhone are now downloading to the library on the hard drive and will challenge its capacity as well. I tried to "fake" limited storage by adding more files to the hard drive so that free space gets blocked, but that didn't work. Somehow iCloud does not care and keeps on growing the local library.
Is there a way I can somehow indirectly or directly force iCloud to upload my photos and decrease the local size? Otherwise I will always have to run around with an external device for eeeever!
Thank you
so I have a MacBook pro 13 and 2tb of iCloud storage. Before I got the iCloud storage my photos library became way to big for the hard drive (500+gb) so I decided to move it to an external storage device. My naive thought: I activate iCloud, allow photos to optimize my storage, the library shrinks in size until I can move it back to my MacBook. But that didn't work.
Instead more and more pictures that were uploaded from my iPhone are now downloading to the library on the hard drive and will challenge its capacity as well. I tried to "fake" limited storage by adding more files to the hard drive so that free space gets blocked, but that didn't work. Somehow iCloud does not care and keeps on growing the local library.
Is there a way I can somehow indirectly or directly force iCloud to upload my photos and decrease the local size? Otherwise I will always have to run around with an external device for eeeever!
Thank you